"Sawing Machine Operator and Tender"

Job Description - Part 4 - Abilities Needed

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

Abilities Needed for: "Sawing Machine Operator and Tender"

1) Control Precision -- The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

2) Manual Dexterity -- The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

3) Arm-Hand Steadiness -- The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

4) Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

5) Rate Control -- The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.

6) Trunk Strength -- The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.

7) Static Strength -- The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.

8) Near Vision -- The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

9) Wrist-Finger Speed -- The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.